https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:03:12 +0000 MyBB https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3631 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:22:56 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3631
by Rama Poonambalam Coomaraswamy

https://www.sacredweb.com/psychology/psy...s-outlook/]]>
by Rama Poonambalam Coomaraswamy

https://www.sacredweb.com/psychology/psy...s-outlook/]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3630 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:18:19 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3630 Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub. If you were to consume either one on its own, you wouldn’t feel much. But when they are brewed together for hours on end, a powerful synergy is unlocked."

https://ayahuasca.com/resources/ceremoni...-ceremony/]]> Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub. If you were to consume either one on its own, you wouldn’t feel much. But when they are brewed together for hours on end, a powerful synergy is unlocked."

https://ayahuasca.com/resources/ceremoni...-ceremony/]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3614 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:05:58 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3614 in Mesopotamia and Egypt, modified by influences from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Empires. The development of alchemy spread through the Arabic Empire (Caliphate), extending from the borders of India and China in the East to Spain in the West, and eventually into the rest of Europe."

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/r.../1285-1311]]> in Mesopotamia and Egypt, modified by influences from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Empires. The development of alchemy spread through the Arabic Empire (Caliphate), extending from the borders of India and China in the East to Spain in the West, and eventually into the rest of Europe."

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/r.../1285-1311]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3613 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:54:07 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3613
"Among Medieval writers, from the tenth century Agricola drew on the Islamic Aristotelian Avicenna, mostly known for his monumental works on medicine, and Theophilus, a monk who wrote about the preparation of metal and glass-work (according to Hoover, mostly for ecclesiastical decoration). Also mention is Geber, apparently of disputed identity and origin (the literature at Hoover’s time placed him somewhere between the seventh and thirteenth centuries) to whom are attributed detailed works on metallurgy and alchemy, including the preparation of various acids and salts, as well as methods to amalgamate and separate precious metals by melting. Hoover states that these works dominated alchemical studies for centuries."

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/20...scene.html]]>
"Among Medieval writers, from the tenth century Agricola drew on the Islamic Aristotelian Avicenna, mostly known for his monumental works on medicine, and Theophilus, a monk who wrote about the preparation of metal and glass-work (according to Hoover, mostly for ecclesiastical decoration). Also mention is Geber, apparently of disputed identity and origin (the literature at Hoover’s time placed him somewhere between the seventh and thirteenth centuries) to whom are attributed detailed works on metallurgy and alchemy, including the preparation of various acids and salts, as well as methods to amalgamate and separate precious metals by melting. Hoover states that these works dominated alchemical studies for centuries."

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/20...scene.html]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3611 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:38:05 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3611
https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/...mel-paris/]]>
https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/...mel-paris/]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3603 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:34:38 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3603 Jennifer M. Rampling
University of Cambridge, UK

"The period 1471 to 1700 saw the accretion of a large corpus of alchemical works associated with the famous English alchemist George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington (d. ca. 1490). Evaluation of Ripley’s alchemy is hampered by uncertainty over the composition of the corpus, the dating and provenance of individual texts, and the difficulty of separating genuine from spurious attributions. The Catalogue of the Ripley Corpus (CRC) provides a first step in ordering these diverse materials: a descriptive catalogue of approximately forty-five alchemical treatises, recipes and poems attributed to Ripley, with an index of all known manuscript copies."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._d_ca_1490]]> Jennifer M. Rampling
University of Cambridge, UK

"The period 1471 to 1700 saw the accretion of a large corpus of alchemical works associated with the famous English alchemist George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington (d. ca. 1490). Evaluation of Ripley’s alchemy is hampered by uncertainty over the composition of the corpus, the dating and provenance of individual texts, and the difficulty of separating genuine from spurious attributions. The Catalogue of the Ripley Corpus (CRC) provides a first step in ordering these diverse materials: a descriptive catalogue of approximately forty-five alchemical treatises, recipes and poems attributed to Ripley, with an index of all known manuscript copies."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._d_ca_1490]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3593 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:25:36 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3593
"Let us set the scene: we are in Europe, at one of the continent’s most refined courts, more than three centuries ago. Before the king, the queen, and their entourage, a curious vial is paraded. All gaze in astonishment: its contents shine in the dark. It’s not magic, but science. The unusual glow comes from phosphorus, which had been obtained by accident from 1,500 gallons (about 5,700 liters) of human urine. Its discoverer, a seventeenth-century German alchemist, ruined two wives to fund his obsession. He sought gold, but found light."

https://www.thereminder.ca/from-phosphor...y-science/]]>
"Let us set the scene: we are in Europe, at one of the continent’s most refined courts, more than three centuries ago. Before the king, the queen, and their entourage, a curious vial is paraded. All gaze in astonishment: its contents shine in the dark. It’s not magic, but science. The unusual glow comes from phosphorus, which had been obtained by accident from 1,500 gallons (about 5,700 liters) of human urine. Its discoverer, a seventeenth-century German alchemist, ruined two wives to fund his obsession. He sought gold, but found light."

https://www.thereminder.ca/from-phosphor...y-science/]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3589 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:09:57 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3589
https://jonwilson9.substack.com/p/living...om-cavalli

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemical-Psycho...1585421405

https://www.amazon.com/Embodying-Osiris-...0835608808]]>
https://jonwilson9.substack.com/p/living...om-cavalli

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemical-Psycho...1585421405

https://www.amazon.com/Embodying-Osiris-...0835608808]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3582 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:04:23 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3582 https://drsimonrobinson.com/alchemy-mysticism/]]> https://drsimonrobinson.com/alchemy-mysticism/]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3581 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:00:36 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3581
https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/content...s-strength]]>
https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/content...s-strength]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3575 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:35:52 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3575
https://labyrinthdesigners.org/can-trans...rangement/]]>
https://labyrinthdesigners.org/can-trans...rangement/]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3570 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:16:25 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3570
Volkhard Wels

2022, Wissen und Buchgestalt. Hg. v. Philipp Hegel und Michael Krewet



"This article examines the ways in which (al)chemical knowledge was transmitted when it was incorporated into book printing in the 16th century. I proceed on the assumption that, up until the 16th century, the written forms of this knowledge constituted a subsidiary form of oral knowledge. "

https://www.academia.edu/96942385/_Al_Ch..._Buchdruck

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator]]>
Volkhard Wels

2022, Wissen und Buchgestalt. Hg. v. Philipp Hegel und Michael Krewet



"This article examines the ways in which (al)chemical knowledge was transmitted when it was incorporated into book printing in the 16th century. I proceed on the assumption that, up until the 16th century, the written forms of this knowledge constituted a subsidiary form of oral knowledge. "

https://www.academia.edu/96942385/_Al_Ch..._Buchdruck

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3567 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:36:59 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3567
From: Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts. Fallstudien aus Wittenberg und vergleichbare Befunde Internationale Tagungvom 3. bis 4. Juli 2015 in Halle (Saale)

https://www.academia.edu/85971903/Alchem...16_183_194


Der Arzneischatz des 16. Jhs. und die Formen seiner Verarbeitung stehen – aus arzneimittelgeschichtlicher und hier speziell aus chemisch-pharmazeutischer Sicht – zwischen denen des Mittelalters, das bereits erste alchemische Einflüsse aufzeigt, und denen der institutionalisierten Chemiatrie des 17. Jhs. Zu dieser Zeit fanden die »chemischen« Arzneien und Konzepte Eingang in den amtlichen Arzneischatz und veränderten die Arzneimitteltherapie und die pharmazeutische Lehre nachhaltig. Dabei entwickelte sich im 16. Jh. unter dem Einfluss von Humanismus und Renaissance über eine bloße zeitliche Vermittlerrolle hinaus ein ganz eigenes Erscheinungsbild, mit dem sich diese Phase einerseits bereits deutlich von der Alchemie des Spätmittelalters abhob, auf der anderen Seite aber vor allem noch von vorparacelsischen Theorien und Techniken geprägt war. Über die in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit angewandten alchemischen Techniken, Substanzen, Arzneiformen und Arzneibereitungen informieren Arzneibücher, Preisverzeichnisse, Inventarlisten von Apotheken und Laboratorien sowie andere schriftliche Aufzeichnungen und Drucke ebenso wie archäologische Funde.

The 16th-century pharmacopoeia and the methods used to prepare its remedies – from the perspective of the history of medicine, and here specifically from a chemical and pharmaceutical point of view – lie between those of the Middle Ages, which already showed the first signs of alchemical influence, and those of the institutionalised ‘chemiatry’ (sic) of the 17th century. It was at this time that ‘chemical’ medicines and concepts found their way into the official pharmacopoeia, bringing about lasting changes to medicinal therapy and pharmaceutical teaching. In the 16th century, under the influence of Humanism and the Renaissance, it developed beyond the mere role of a temporal intermediary to take on a distinct character of its own; whilst this phase already stood out clearly from the alchemy of the late Middle Ages, it was, on the other hand, still primarily shaped by pre-Paracelsian theories and techniques. Information on the alchemical techniques, substances, dosage forms and medicinal preparations used in the late Middle Ages and early modern period is provided by pharmacopoeias, price lists, inventory lists from pharmacies and laboratories, and other written records and printed works, as well as archaeological finds.

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator]]>
From: Alchemie und Wissenschaft des 16. Jahrhunderts. Fallstudien aus Wittenberg und vergleichbare Befunde Internationale Tagungvom 3. bis 4. Juli 2015 in Halle (Saale)

https://www.academia.edu/85971903/Alchem...16_183_194


Der Arzneischatz des 16. Jhs. und die Formen seiner Verarbeitung stehen – aus arzneimittelgeschichtlicher und hier speziell aus chemisch-pharmazeutischer Sicht – zwischen denen des Mittelalters, das bereits erste alchemische Einflüsse aufzeigt, und denen der institutionalisierten Chemiatrie des 17. Jhs. Zu dieser Zeit fanden die »chemischen« Arzneien und Konzepte Eingang in den amtlichen Arzneischatz und veränderten die Arzneimitteltherapie und die pharmazeutische Lehre nachhaltig. Dabei entwickelte sich im 16. Jh. unter dem Einfluss von Humanismus und Renaissance über eine bloße zeitliche Vermittlerrolle hinaus ein ganz eigenes Erscheinungsbild, mit dem sich diese Phase einerseits bereits deutlich von der Alchemie des Spätmittelalters abhob, auf der anderen Seite aber vor allem noch von vorparacelsischen Theorien und Techniken geprägt war. Über die in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit angewandten alchemischen Techniken, Substanzen, Arzneiformen und Arzneibereitungen informieren Arzneibücher, Preisverzeichnisse, Inventarlisten von Apotheken und Laboratorien sowie andere schriftliche Aufzeichnungen und Drucke ebenso wie archäologische Funde.

The 16th-century pharmacopoeia and the methods used to prepare its remedies – from the perspective of the history of medicine, and here specifically from a chemical and pharmaceutical point of view – lie between those of the Middle Ages, which already showed the first signs of alchemical influence, and those of the institutionalised ‘chemiatry’ (sic) of the 17th century. It was at this time that ‘chemical’ medicines and concepts found their way into the official pharmacopoeia, bringing about lasting changes to medicinal therapy and pharmaceutical teaching. In the 16th century, under the influence of Humanism and the Renaissance, it developed beyond the mere role of a temporal intermediary to take on a distinct character of its own; whilst this phase already stood out clearly from the alchemy of the late Middle Ages, it was, on the other hand, still primarily shaped by pre-Paracelsian theories and techniques. Information on the alchemical techniques, substances, dosage forms and medicinal preparations used in the late Middle Ages and early modern period is provided by pharmacopoeias, price lists, inventory lists from pharmacies and laboratories, and other written records and printed works, as well as archaeological finds.

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3562 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:19:09 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3562 AND COMMONLY CALLED OIL OF SULPHUR PER CAMPANAM.

BY GEORGE STARKEY.

https://tinyurl.com/mrdz5nea

See also this old Facebook post:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/studyalc...FO29mYCy65]]> AND COMMONLY CALLED OIL OF SULPHUR PER CAMPANAM.

BY GEORGE STARKEY.

https://tinyurl.com/mrdz5nea

See also this old Facebook post:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/studyalc...FO29mYCy65]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3561 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:26:13 +0100 Paul Ferguson]]> https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3561 Sarah Lang
2026, Ambix


"Martin Ruland the Younger’s Lexicon Alchemiae (1612) is one of the most influential alchemical dictionaries of the early modern period, yet its sources and compilation methods remain poorly understood. This study applies computational approaches to investigate the vocabulary underlying Ruland’s lexicon and to identify potential textual influences."

https://www.academia.edu/173528204/Conte...Dictionary

Ruland's text here:
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_a-NEOmbzlgoC]]> Sarah Lang
2026, Ambix


"Martin Ruland the Younger’s Lexicon Alchemiae (1612) is one of the most influential alchemical dictionaries of the early modern period, yet its sources and compilation methods remain poorly understood. This study applies computational approaches to investigate the vocabulary underlying Ruland’s lexicon and to identify potential textual influences."

https://www.academia.edu/173528204/Conte...Dictionary

Ruland's text here:
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_a-NEOmbzlgoC]]>